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UNITED STATES PATENT OrFicE.

` JAMES CARPENTER, OF MORVIA, NEXV YORK.

GRAPPLE.

-PEC'IE'ICA'I'ION formilngl part of Letters Patent No. 307,267, datecl October 28, 1884;.

Application filed March 25, 1884. (No modeli' T0 all witam, it 721,601/ cancer/L:

Be it known that I, J AMEs OARPENTER, of Moravia, in the county of Cayuga, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Grapples, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a'full, clear, and exaot description.

This inventio'n consists in the novel construction of a grapple, by means of which two persons are enabled to conveniently grasp, lift, and carry between them a heavy body, ice or stone or other substance, and as readily release the said substance when desired, all as hereinafter more fully described.

The invention isfully illustrated in the annexed drawings, wherein Figure I is a transverse section of the grapple, showing it in itsoperative position. Fig. II is a top view of the same, showing it Yin its distended position; and Fig. III is a detached view of the level' by means of which the grappling-arms or grappling-irons are thrown out of engagement and raised in position for re-engageinent With the substance to belifted or carried.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre.

sponding parts.

A is a bar, shapcd at its extremitics to form suitable handles for manipulating the same. To the central portion of said bar is attached a plate, B, to opposite edges of which are hinged two leaves, D, and to said leaves are rigidly attached the grappling-arms or grappliug-irons O, which I prefer the form of a bar bent at its center into the shape of a loop or fiattencd yoke, Z, constituting the attached end of the grappling-iron, the extremities of said bar being bent into the form of hooks similar in Shape to the hooks of iceand by turning the rods they lift the grappling-iron C, as represented by dotted lines of Fig. I of the drawings. Then, after bringing'the central portion of the bar over the object to be lifted and releasing the rods the grappling-irons are allowed to drop and engage with the object to be lifted, as shown by Fig. I of the dra-wings. This brings the load a proper distance from the ends of the bar and allows the operators to carry theload conveniently between them.

Having described my invention, what I claini is- 1. A grapple coniprising,` a handling-bar, grappling-arms hinged to the central portion of the bar, and rods connected with said bar for raising' the grappling-arms, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with the bar, of grappling-arnis hinged to the central portion of said bar, and extended from opposite sides thereof, and rods extending from the center of the bar respeetively to opposite ends thereof, and provided with lifting-cams under the grappling-arms, and with handles at the outer ends, substantially as described and shown.

3. In combination with the bar A, the plate B, seeured to the central portion of the bar, the grappling-arm (J, hinged to said plate at opposite edges of the bar, and oscillatory rods 'r 'r, connected to opposite sides of the bar, and formed with the cam a and handle B, substantially as described and shown.

'4. In combination with the bar A, the plate B, secured to the central portion of said bar, the leaves d (7,, hinged to the opposite edges of said plate, and the grappling-arins cc,formed respectively of a bar bent at the center into the Shape of a flattened attaching` yoke or loop Z and terminating hook shapc, substantially as described and shown.

In tcstinion y whereofl have hereunto signed my name and affixed my seal, in the presence of two attcstingI witnesses, at Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, this 5th day of March, 1884.

J AMES CARPENTER. L. sz]

Witnesses:

F. H. GIBBs, G. BENDIXON. 

